Gartner Report

Enterprise environments have a multitude of network security devices and literally thousands of rules accumulated over years of deployment. These rules are often obsolete, conflicting and redundant – which can impact network performance and create vulnerabilities for critical systems and data.

In a new report, Gartner notes that network security policy management solutions have become more comprehensive as enterprise needs have evolved, citing some of the following critical benefits:

Comprehensive firewall policy management – including streamlining, optimizing and migrating to modern platforms

Automated change analysis and control – and the ability to perform change impact analysis prior to deployment